looking back

• Computational Stylistics @ Wollombi
  • Wollombi 2015
• FoSL Meeting
  • Żabnica 2016
• Stylometry Summit
  • Amsterdam 2019
• Text Analysis Retreat
  • Vienna 2023

David L. Hoover

good old times…

some initiatives

• Computational Stylistics Group
• SIG-DLS
• Federation of Stylometry Labs
• COST Action “Distant Reading”
• CLS INFRA
• …

Federation of Stylometry Labs

CLS INFRA project

• text collections (corpora)
  • quality
  • metadata
  • conversion
• methodology
  • tools (NLP, datavis, …)
  • tool chains
  • methodological considerations
  • bibliographic survey
• network of scholars
  • training schools
  • short-term research stays
  • collaboration with COST Action

ELTeC corpus

DraCor

Overarching idea is to connect…

• People
  • To establish a network of CLS researchers
• Data
  • To consolidate existing high-quality corpora…
  • …covering prose, drama and poetry
• Tools
  • To build a chain of NLP tools to analyze texts
• Methods
  • To provide a survey of state-of-the-art methods

The project’s structure

The team (30+ people)

Julie Birkholz, Ingo Börner, Joanna Byszuk, Sally Chambers, Vera Maria Charvat, Silvie Cinková, Tess Dejaeghere, Anna Dijkstra, Julia Dudar, Matej Ďurčo, Maciej Eder, Jennifer Edmond, Evgeniia Fileva, Frank Fischer, Serge Heiden, Michal Křen, Bartłomiej Kunda, Michał Mrugalski, Ciara Murphy, Carolin Odebrecht, Marco Raciti, Salvador Ros, Christof Schöch, Artjoms Šeļa, Toma Tasovac, Justin Tonra, Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, Peer Trilcke, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Lisanne van Rossum, …

training schools

• Prague 2022
  • NLP tools
  • dates: 6–9 June 2022
  • 25 participants on site
  • many more remotely
• Madrid 2023
  • text analysis
  • dates: 10-11 May 2023
• Vienna 2024
  • corpus queries
  • tentative dates: 10–12 June 2024

TNA

• transnational access
• short-term research stays…
• in one of 6 institutions:
  • NUI Galway
  • Uni Potsdam
  • Uni Trier
  • UNED Madrid
  • OEAW Vienna
  • Charles Uni, Prague
• everyone eligible
• two calls every year

deliverables published

• 3.1 Report on the methodological baseline for (computational) literary studies
• 3.2 Survey of methods
• 4.1 Report on the skills matrix for computational literary studies
• 5.1 Review of the data landscape
• 6.1 Assembly of existing data
• 7.1 On programmable corpora and DraCor
• 8.1 Tools for basic natural language processing (NLP) tasks
• …

survey of methods